“Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.”

"Alice's Law of Compensatory Cash Flow" in Alice, Let's Eat (1978) ("Alice" was his wife, Alice Trillin)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accord…" by Calvin Trillin?
Calvin Trillin photo
Calvin Trillin 4
American journalist 1935

Related quotes

William Saroyan photo

“I loved the theaters, and even though I was hungry, I never spent money for food.”

William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer

The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)

Barack Obama photo
Ned Vizzini photo

“They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.”

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad photo
William Trufant Foster photo
Vivian Stanshall photo

“If I had all the money I've spent on drink — I'd spend it on drink.”

Vivian Stanshall (1943–1995) English musician, artist and author

Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1978)

Fyodor Dostoyevsky photo

“But money can always and everywhere be spent, and, moreover, forbidden fruit is sweetest of all.”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) Russian author

The House of the Dead https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=8PhfAAAAMAAJ&rdid=book-8PhfAAAAMAAJ&rdot=1 (1915), as translated by Constance Garnett, p. 16
Context: Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to the man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it. But money can always and everywhere be spent, and, moreover, forbidden fruit is sweetest of all.

Mary Roach photo
Pliny the Younger photo

“The day, even when it is at the longest, is quickly spent.”
Quamquam longissimus, dies cito conditur.

Pliny the Younger (61–113) Roman writer

Letter 36, 4.
Letters, Book IX

George Best photo

“I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.”

George Best (1946–2005) British footballer

Reported in " Best: Decline of the golden boy http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4090840.stm", BBC News (June 14 2005).

Related topics